Line #6 PlayingWith/GeniusDitz


1	'''Basic Trope''': TheDitz [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin is really smart]], at least in [[CripplingOverspecialization some area(s).]]
2	* '''Straight''': Clueless Alice is really clueless about most things, but she's brilliant at her chosen profession of biophysics.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': Clueless Alice looks stupid in all areas, but manages to be competent at everything not requiring giving a straightforward answer.
4	* '''Downplayed''': Though easily distracted and a bit silly, Alice is able to handle her college classes fine.
5	* '''Justified''': Alice has a ''very'' narrow field of interests.
6	* '''Inverted''':
7	** ModernMajorGeneral
8	** DitzyGenius
9	* '''Subverted''':
10	** Alice appears to be a genius at biophysics, but in fact just memorized a book about it on a whim.
11	** What at first seems to be a fluke is actually {{foreshadowing}} that Alice is using ObfuscatingStupidity.
12	* '''Double Subverted''':
13	** Her real specializaton is ''quantum'' physics.
14	** After Alice shows a few unexpected signs of intelligence, those around her begin to suspect she's using ObfuscatingStupidity, and treat her as a font of wisdom. [[SeeminglyProfoundFool She isn't.]]
15	* '''Parodied''': When the characters are at a loss in a particularly esoteric subject, all eyes turn to Clueless Alice, who nails it except when that wouldn't be funny.
16	* '''Zig-Zagged''': Alice has expert knowledge in some parts of some fields, an average level of knowledge about others, and none in others.
17	* '''Averted''': Alice is just TheDitz straight up. Or she's just TheSmartGuy.
18	* '''Enforced''':
19	** TruthInTelevision
20	** Alice was originally written as a simple [[TheDitz ditz]] but got one field of competence to make her character deeper.
21	* '''Lampshaded''': "And how exactly is it that you learned biophysics?"
22	* '''Invoked''': The team uses Alice to hustle money in biophysics quizzes.
23	* '''Exploited''': The hustle victims then challenge Alice to another field of study, and HilarityEnsues.
24	* '''Defied''': Alice admits she's as dumb as a sack of hammers.
25	* '''Discussed''': "Alice may seem stupid, but when it comes to biophysics, she makes everyone else look stupid!"
26	* '''Conversed''': "Alice is literally one of the most brilliant biophysics doctoral students I've ever seen in my twenty-five years of teaching. Bit scattered is an understatement, her office usually looks like a bomb went off in it, but wow is that woman going to go places." "Quite possibly the morgue, along with half the building we live in. Yeah, she's my roommate - I don't doubt at all that she's a truly rare talent in her field, but this is the woman who has left the gas on THREE GODDAMN TIMES this month, and did I mention that she's a smoker and frequently smokes inside when she's toiling away at something late at night? Yeah. She probably will change the world if she doesn't accidentally kill herself first."
27	* '''Deconstructed''': Alice is smart enough to catch on that other people see her as a ditz, and has self-esteem issues because of this.
28	* '''Reconstructed''': But she won’t let that put her down, and therefore, enjoy the skills she has.
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30	What?! You mean you can build an airplane out of scrap but you cannot create a link back to the main page? You could've told me ealier, GeniusDitz!
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32	%%Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
33	%%* '''Implied''': ???
34	%%* '''Untwisted''': ???
35	%%* '''Plotted a Good Waste''': ???
36	%%* '''Played for Laughs''': ???

Context PlayingWith / GeniusDitz